US Patent Issued to EQUIFAX on March 18 for "Facilitating queries of encrypted sensitive data via encrypted variant data objects" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,016, issued on March 18, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Facilitating queries of encrypted sensitive data via encrypted variant data objects" was invented by Yuvaraj Sankaran (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Vijay Nagarajan (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of this disclosure provide digital data processing systems for using encrypted variant data objects to facilitate queries of sensitive data. In one example, a digital data processing system can receive sensitive data about an entity. The digital data processing system can create, in an identity data repository and from the sensitive data, a searchable sec...